Republicans tried to ram through new health care legislation without proper vetting again this week. YOU all immediately called your MoCs in legions to tell them this haste and the shoddy replacement plan were unacceptable, and the vote broke down before it could be taken.
Remember the Department of Homeland Security, at the behest of the White House, going after Twitter to reveal the identity of a critic of Donald’s immigration policies, in a chilling 1984 moment? The DHS inspector general is not tolerating that unconstitutional nonsense and has launched an investigation into possible abuse of authority as well as “potential broader misuse of summons authority” within the department. With all of us holding the administration accountable, we can continue to enact these checks and balances to Donald’s abuses of power, even within the government.
Donald suffered another blow to his attempts to overreach his office when a federal court struck down his executive order withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities, stating that only Congress has the power to allocate those funds. Amusingly, once again the ruling is partially based on Donald’s own administration’s words–Donald, Atty General Jeff Sessions, and press secretary Angry Spicer.
Public and lawmaker resistance from both sides of the aisle put the kibosh on Donald’s ridiculous border wall plans in a proposed spending bill, to avert a government shutdown.
The committee that oversees granting congressional access passes to news media rejected alt-right platform Breitbart’s request for press accreditation, for failure to meet proof of non-lobbying connections. Breitbart “reporters” can still get into sessions, but must go through public access–it’s a small victory, but one that helps keep the extremist, incendiary, white-nationalist-driven propaganda site from being legitimized by this White House.
Thanks in part to unremitting pressure from voters like you, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into Michael Flynn’s potentially illegal payments from Russia and Turkey that he failed to disclose as national security adviser–and for which, documents released Thursday reveal, he did not seek the approval he was told to get.
Meanwhile another watchdog group, United to Protect Democracy, is suing Donald to find out whether he’s bullying civil servants into violating the law.
Finally, FOX News continues to be shaken by fallout from its employees’ actions–not just the $13 million payouts on Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment suits before his recent ouster, but now 11 current and former employees have filed suit for severe racial discrimination at the network. Perhaps FOX would appreciate a fitting Bible quote: “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7).
